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Michael Marchesano gazed out the window of his third-floor office in downtown Los Angeles and didn't like what he saw. In a far corner of an excavated pit, five stories deep and the size of a city block, stood a mound of dirt as big as a small house. It wasn't supposed to be there. The weekend construction crew, looking like toy figures, was occupied with other jobs: tying together steel reinforcing bars, stringing polyethylene tubing, arc-welding a raker beam into a lag wall. Over the next three years, workers will raise the New Wilshire Grand tower 1,100 feet above the corner of Figueroa Street and Wilshire Boulevard. With an open promenade and an enormous swoop of glass...

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Michael Marchesano gazed out the window of his third-floor office in downtown Los Angeles and didn't like what he saw. In a far corner of an excavated pit, five stories deep and the size of a city block, stood a mound of dirt as big as a small house. It...

Events in the real world continue to mock the assertion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that his majority opinion in the Hobby Lobby case is a "narrow" one.
Alito maintained that his June 30 decision concerned only the contraceptive...

When Jim Black leads people on a robust walk three times a week on the grounds of the 120-acre Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, he's got powerful company: God.
The several dozen people who join him have shown up with the same hopes that anyone brings to...

You know when you fall in love with a band and you want everyone else to love them too?
You become a music proselytizer, trying to convert the skeptics. Just give it one listen, you say, sure they'll see the light.
Sometimes there’s the great...

Rick Warren said in an interview Tuesday on CNN that even with a loving family and access to mental healthcare, it was not enough to save his son from suicide.
Matthew Warren, 27, fatally shot himself April 5 at his home in Orange County by using an...

The annual retail arms race is invading Thanksgiving with a vengeance. Instead of a Norman Rockwell tableau of family gathered round the turkey, a more fitting image this year might be Americans rushing out to bag bargains.
On Monday, Wal-Mart, Target...

An arts and crafts retailer has donated the 170-acre Rancho Capistrano, previously owned by the Crystal Cathedral, to Saddleback Church. The Lake Forest church, headed by the Rev. Rick Warren, has been leasing the property, used for retreats, conferences and..

Sue Horton, Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion editor of The Times, is in Rwanda on a two-week Gatekeeper Editor fact-finding trip organized by the International Reporting Project. She is chronicling her trip on the Opinion L.A. blog. Tuesday, Nov. 15: The ...

President Obama's administration is seen as more friendly toward religion than the Democratic Party as a whole, a new Pew poll has found. Thirty-seven percent of Americans said they view Obama as religion-friendly, while only 29% said they see the ...

Pastor Rick Warren, the Orange County evangelist who generated controversy for giving the invocation at President Obamaâs inauguration, has called on followers to donate nearly $1 million in the next two days to make up for a shortfall in donations ... .

A year-end plea for $900,000 yielded $2.4 million for the Lake Forest mega-church led by Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor who gave the invocation at President Obamaâs inauguration. Warren had sent out the appeal via an online communication to Saddleback..

More money could be pouring into Saddleback Church in Lake Forest after its well-known pastor, Rick Warren, issued an end-of-the-year plea for donations to bridge a financial shortfall. âWe have not gotten a final tally yet,â said church spokeswoman Kristi

Evangelical preacher Rick Warren was briefly hospitalized earlier this week following an eye injury, according to a message the popular pastor sent to his followers on Twitter on Thursday thanking them for their prayers as he resumed his recovery. Warren ...

Former President George W. Bush found a warm response Monday in Lake Forest, Calif., located in the Republican stronghold of Orange County. Bush appeared at Saddleback Church with pastor Rick Warren to discuss his memoir, "Decision Points." Mitchell Landsberg